"So I just landed from Dubai and now there is like tons of ambulances and fire trucks and police all over the place," he tweeted.

The rapper posted a video from the window of the double-decker plane. "Well a couple people got sick on the plane and it must be pretty serious because there's a lot of people out there," he says as he looks out the window at a mass of emergency response vehicles on the runway.

In Pictures: Plane Quarantined at JFK With Hundreds on Board

Vanilla Ice, real name Robert Matthew Van Winkle, said he was on the top floor of the plane and he heard the outbreak was mainly on the bottom floor.

His Twitter fans wasted no time punning on the rapper's songs. "I sure hope everyone is collaborating and listening," Justin Houch tweeted, in reference to Ice's track "Ice, Ice Baby."

One of Ice's tour managers, Chuck Quon, confirms that they were on the Emirates plane returning from an event in Dubai. They are all getting on connecting flights to head home.

At least 10 people have been taken to the hospital after a plane landed at JFK with about 100 people on board reporting feeling sick, federal and local law enforcement sources say. Adam Kuperstein reports.